A rock shoal upstream on Beaverdam Creek served as an early ford until a flat bridge was built there. On Monday, August 24, 1908, beginning at 7:00 p.m., twenty inches of rain fell over the next twenty-four hours, and the resulting freshet washed out that bridge, sending local residents back to the ford. Charles Irwin Willis built the present bridge, 35 feet long and 12 feet wide, on land owned by Alexander Lafayette Campbell, shaping it to the natural lay of the land so that it is neither square nor plumb. It has four Howe trusses on each side, with criss-crossing braces and vertical tie rods called Kingposts; William Howe of Spencer, Massachusetts, patented the design in 1840, and it was commonly used for railroad bridges. The truss system absorbs and transfers the weight of passing vehicles to rock abutments at each end. The bridge was restored in 1964 through the cooperation of the Crescent Community Club and again in 1990 by Greenville County. Pleasant Hill Road was rerouted around it in 1951, and it was closed to vehicular traffic in 1984. Downstream, Alexander Lafayette Campbell operated a corn grist mill, and in 1938 Joseph Daniel Smith built a new corn grist mill at the same site. He constructed a dam on the rock shoal about 75 feet upstream, drilling into the rock to stabilize it, creating a mill pond and carrying water to the mill in a flume fashioned from 30 gallon steel barrels that passed through the bridge abutment. The mill was first powered by an overshot waterwheel and later by a side shot turbine wheel with a vertical shaft, and it closed in the 1950s. The foundations of the mill and the 1938 Smith House remain visible downstream. In 1979 E.O. Productions filmed a scene there for A Day of Judgement, a movie set in the early 1900s that included an avenging angel riding a horse out of the bridge, and the bridge later became a frequent photographic subject in Upstate South Carolina tourism guides.